Union-undergarment.



L. F. DUTY, UNION UNDERGARMENT. APPHCATION FILED SEPT. 22. TBHS.

Patented Feb. 5, 1918'.

LII-LIAN F. DOTY, 01E CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

UN I ON- UNDERGARMEN 'l.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1918.

Application. filed September 22, 1916. Serial No. 121,656.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LILLIAN F. DOTY, a citizen of the United States,residing at the city of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inUnion-Undergarments, and do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to apparel, and more especially to bifurcatedgarments; and the object of the same is to provide such a garment as aunion suit with a seat piece so constructed that it will stay normallyclosed the crotch and that it will provide for extra fullness at certainpoints.

This object is carried out by the means hereinafter more fully describedand claimed, reference being had to the draw ings wherein a V Figure 1is a front elevation and Fig. 2 a rear elevation of a garment embodyingthis invention as the same would look when hung up. i

Fig. 3 is an enlarged rear elevation of the lower portion of suchgarment with the legs spread slightly to more clearly illustrate thedetails of the invention.

Fig. i is a plan view of the seat piece in its entirety and before it isapplied, and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of said seat piece shirred atits uppervend to produce the dee sired fullness, and with one of'itsparts bent upward to the position it will assume when stitched into thegarment.

In the drawings, and more especially in Figs. 2 and 3, B tion down tothe waist line at about WV of a union garment, and R is the right and Lthe left leg. This garment may be made in any suitable way and of anysuitable material, but we are concerned only with the v. inside legseams S; and while I have shown the garment as havlng a body portion Babove the waist line, that portion does not enter into the presentinvention excepting that with." full length body garments or union suitsit is desirable to insert a seat piece which will give freedom towearers of various sizes, will not chafe, and will hang normally closedwithout the necessity for buttons or other fastening devices. Also it isdesirable that seams shall be elimidesignates the body pornated as faras possible, to give greater ease to the wearer when sitting.

The seat piece of my garment is by preference cut from a single piece ofmaterial in the blank form best seen in Fig. 4, and might be said toconsist of a right hand portion or part- 1, a complementary left handportion or part 2, and an upper portion or part 3 extending across andintegrally uniting the upper ends of the two side or leg parts whichlatter therefore might be called bifurcations separated originallyby along upright opening 4. Starting from the point 5 at the extreme top andcenter of the upper part 3, the upper edge of this part is substantiallystraight along a line out to the point 6, then curved from 6 ratherabruptly to about the point 7, and then curved rather gently down pastthe upper part 3 and the upper portion of the bifurcation or part 1 tothe point 8. Here the line of the outer edge makes a reverse curveoutward to the angle 9, thence the edge is carried inward and down toabout the point 10 and thence almost straight downward to 11. Beneaththe latter point the lower extremity of the part 1 is out preferablypointed as seen at 12, and beyond the point the inside line 13 risesalmost straight alongside the opening 4 to the point- 14. From thelatter point the other or complelnentary part- 2 of the blank is cut inthe same manner except that it is reversed as will be seen, and I do notconsider it necessary to duplicate the description. This leaves theentire side piece or part 1 with. a substantially triangular extension15 at its outer edge beyond the dotted line 16, and a long narrow tongue17 at its lower end beneath the transverse dotted line 18. Across theblank I have dotted a construe tion line 19 connecting the points 9 forref erence below. I

In applying this seat piece to the garment shown, the latter is cutacross the back on a transverse line 20 at or just below the waistlineWV, and the inside leg seams S are opened for a considerable distancedownward for a purpose to appear. The blank is then laid on the garment,its upper part 3 shirred or gathered as at 23, and its upper edge whereit is nearly straight from 6 to 6, and also where it is curved on eachside from 6 to 7 is sewed along the line 20 to the back of the garment.The outer edge from 7 to 8 is then sewed to the seam line- S along therear of the leg, and this stitching is continued from 8 to 9 along theextension 15; while the seam line S is closed from the point 9 downward.The entire side piece 1 is then bent upward on about the-transverse line19, and the edge from 9 to 10 and then from 10 to 11 is sewed into theseam line of the front breadth of the leg. Finally the outside edge ofthe pointed extremity 12 is sewed into the seam line up to the crotch 21in front, as seen in Fig. 1.

This is repeated for the other side piece or part 2 of the blank, and ifdesired the two extremities 12 may lap each other slightly as seen inFig. 1, but the inside edges of the seat piece from the extremities 12upward to thepoint- 1 1 are not connected to each other.

The result of applying a seat piece of this shape-to a garment of thekind suggested is that the finished article when hanging up will bepractically fiat in front as Seen in Fig. I and quite full in the rearas seen in Fig.2, and in Fig. 3 I have drawn the legs aside to show howthis fullness is distributed. It is obvious that when the garment isapplied t0=the wearer, the fullness of the thighs and the figure at therear will fill out the seat piece as the shirring 23 permits, and even awearer who is quite large around this portion of the anatomy will notcause the seat piece to hang open or to draw open in the ordinarypositions and movements of the body. Even when the extremities 12 arenot lapped in front as seen in Fig. 1, I find that no buttons or otherfastening devices are required, and that the parts of this device hangnormally closed. The extensions 15 downthe inside of'the legs preventthe movements of the legs in walking from drawing the device open, yetthere is no seam in the crotch, as both side pieces are stitched intothe inner leg seams S which already existed. The Whole device is cutfrom one piece of material which by preference will be the same as thatof the garment to which it. is applied, and if this is knitted fabric asusual the seat piece will have the same lateral expansion as the otherparts of the garment.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for T he device may which maketheextension 15 quite large be cut in sizes, and on lines for wearershaving unusually large thighs, and

the shirring at 23 may be made to adapt the garment to the size andshape of the wearer.

lVhat I claim is:

.1. The herein describedblank for a seat piece for blfurcated garments,the same COlll'.

prising a rounded end portion connected to bifurcated right and leftparts having, below the end of the bifurcation and approximately midwaythe length of the blank, lat eral triangular extensions; 7

2. The combination with a bifurcated garment whose glegs have insideseam lines; of aseat piece havin'ga transverse upper part and right andleft side parts. depending therefrom and integral therewith, the top ofthejtransverse part being shirred and stitched to the back of thegarment above the crotch, each side part having a substantiallytriangular extension on its outcredge between its upperv and lower endsand folded on a transverse line through the tip of said extension, andseams uniting the outer edge of the transverse part and each side, partdown to said tip with the rear seam line of the leg, and uniting theouter edge of said side piece from the tip to itsflower extremity withthe front seam line of the leg up to the crotch.

The combination with a union garment whose legs have inside seam linesand whose back is cut transversely below the waist line; of a seat piececomprising an upper part substantially straight across the center of itstop and then curved down each side, and two side pieces dependingfromand integral with said upper part and each having a triangularextension on its outer edge'at' about its mid-length, the center of saidupper part being shirred, a line of stitching uniting the Shirred edgewith the back of the garment where it is transversely out, and,

other lines of stitching uniting the remainder of said upper part andthe outer edge of each side piece with the rear seam line of each legclown to the tip of said extension and thence upward with the front seamline of such leg. r 7 L'I'LLIAN F. D( )'TY.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). G.

